True crime stories & great mysteries

Hwaseong serial killer

The first case of serial killings in the history of South Korea that triggered the huge investigation in the area of Hwaseong City - over 20,000 suspects were taken under consideration.

Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the first big trials that gathered massive media coverage. The 20-months-old...

Zodiac killer

The Zodiac killer is an unknown serial killer that was operating in California between 1968 and 1974. He killed 5 people and injured 2 more, at least those are confirmed victims of the Zodiac...

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Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...

Voynich Manuscript

The mysterious book, named after Wilfrid Voynich, a book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The manuscript contains 240 pages filled with text that so far was not deciphered and the pictures...

Isdal Woman

On 29 November 1970, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Bergen in south-west Norway. The area was known as Isdalen (Ice Valley) or sometimes as Death Valley, due to the history...

SS Ourang Medan

Two American ships while crossing the Strait of Malacca, near Indonesia, received a distress call from SS Ourang Medan. The rescue party that boarded the ship found all the crew dead...

Pearl Harbor attack

The Attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the United States into the World War 2. It was the last straw that left Americans no choice but to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. At least...

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...

High Rock event

In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...

Vantage Point 2000

While making a public appearance in Salamanca, Spain, the US President is shot, which starts a chain of unexpected events.

Chernobyl Diaries 2012

Foreign tourists take a trip into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant. While they visit the abandoned town of Pripyat they find they are not alone there.

The Silence 2010

A former police detective learns about a crime very similar to a case he worked on 20 years earlier and is convinced they are linked, but to prove it, he needs to start a private investigation.

The Andromeda Strain 1971

Group of top scientists face the challenge of unknown virus that killed almost every citizen of small town.